READY AN ACTION: STANDARD ACTION
✦ Choose Action to Ready: Choose the specific
action you are readying (what attack you plan to use,
for example) as well as your intended target. You can
ready a standard action, a move action, or a minor
action. Whichever action you choose, the act of
readying it is a standard action.
✦ Choose Trigger: Choose the action that will trigger
your readied action. When that action occurs, you
can use your readied action. If the trigger doesn’t
occur or you choose to ignore it, you can’t use your
readied action, and you take your next turn as
normal.
✦ Immediate Reaction: A readied action is an
immediate reaction. It takes place after your enemy
completes the action that triggers it.
✦ Interrupting an Enemy: If you want to use a readied
action to attack before an enemy attacks, you
should ready your action in response to the enemy’s
movement. That way your attack will be triggered by
a portion of the enemy’s move, and you will interrupt
it and attack first. If you ready an action to be
triggered by an enemy attack, your readied action
will occur as a reaction to that attack, so you’ll attack
after the enemy.
Note that an enemy might use a power that lets
it move and then attack. If you readied an action to
attack in response to that enemy’s movement, your
readied action interrupts the movement, and you
can attack before the enemy does.
✦ Reset Initiative: After you resolve your readied
action, move your place in the initiative order to
directly before the creature or the event that triggered
your readied action.